Top Comics to Buy This Week: 3/30/2016

We all want the best of the best, so let us point out the hottest comics released each week. We spotlight our favorite comics that we know are money-well-spent and new books that look cool and are backed by some top-tier talent.

Check out our picks, then take to the comments to let us know what looks good to you!

Darth Vader #18 - $3.99

By writer Kieron Gillen & artist Salvador Larroca | Marvel Comics

Darth Vader’s solo series has been the best of Marvel’s Star Wars comics -- earning a nomination for IGN’s Best Comic Book Series of 2015 -- and the quality has remained high in the current story arc, The Shu-Torun War. Imagine Darth Vader away from the Empire and the space ships, instead dropped off on the ore-mining planet of Shu-Torun where he is assisting a Queen in a battle to keep power from a greedy council of ore barons. It’s full of tension, insane action scenes (like boarding a hostile lava-submarine), and lots of Game of Thrones-esque drama and deceit.

Writer Kieron Gillen can simply do no wrong on this series, and with Salvador Larroca doing the best work of his career making Vader the ultimate badass, well, the Force is strong with this one.

IDW’s Godzilla comics have been monstrously strong, so we’re hyped for Godzilla: Oblivion, a new five-part mini-series. Godzilla resides in a dimension of monsters where he rules as king, but what happens when a baby kaiju slips into our dimension where monsters don’t belong? We don’t know, but we can’t wait for IGN favorite writer Joshua Hale Fialkov, along with artist Brian Churilla, to show us!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Deviations #1 - $4.99

By writer Tom Waltz & artist Zach Howard | IDW Publishing

We love the ongoing TMNT series, so we’re excited to see this “What if?” one-shot that explores what would happen if Shredder was the leader of the Turtles. That’s insane! In the “City Fall” event where Shredder made a grand play for domination, he brainwashed Leonardo into becoming a Foot Soldier -- which was pretty awesome -- so this story explores what would happen if he got not only Leo but Mikey, Donnie and Raph, too.

Power Lines #1 - $3.50

By Jimmie Robinson | Image Comics

Power Lines is a six-issue mini-series that sees writer/artist Jimmie Robinson tell the story of a young black man from the ghetto who gets super powers, only to realize that they only work in a wealthy, upscale neighborhood. Tackling subjects of race and social economics, Robinson’s commentary through his art couldn’t come at a more relevant time.